Weak Religious Leaders Need Strict Rules. The Weakest of Them Need the Strictest Rules and the Most Violence.

This is a corollary to "Violence arises from powerlessness" by the Roman Seneca, either the Elder or the Younger.

I remember the nun who told her class "Faith is a gift that not everyone was given. I remember too the nun who told her class of the torments of Hell, even to the burning strips of flesh hanging from the bones.